What New Horror Movies Come Out This Week?

New Horror/Suspense Films and TV Shows in Theaters, on Demand and on DVD/Blu-ray

May 3-9:

1. Affection

Affection

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
Ellie Carter has never met the man who calls himself her husband, doesn’t recognize the girl who calls her mother, and can’t remember the life she is told is her own. Afflicted by violent seizures that reset her memory without warning, she is trapped in a cyclical nightmare, struggling to uncover the horrifying truth of her existence–before she forgets it all over again.

2. Buffet Infinity

Buffet Infinity

Release: On Demand
Echoing the Canadian comedy classic ‘Sctv’ and picking from hundreds of hours of original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County. Ads for insurance, used car rivals, a local religious scholar, and a recording artist converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient.

3. Exit 8

Exit 8

Release: On Demand
Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

4. Give Me Back My Baby

Release: Tubi
When a couple chooses a surrogate for their baby, they unknowingly open the door to an obsession that could cost them everything.

5. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Release: On Demand
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.

6. Scared to Death

Scared to Death

Release: On Demand
From director Paul Boyd, SCARED TO DEATH explores the consequences of curiosity when a séance opens a door that refuses to close. Featuring intense performances, practical effects, and relentless suspense.

7. Send Help

Send Help

Release: On Demand
Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) and Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien), two colleagues who find themselves stranded on a deserted island after they are the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it becomes an unsettling and darkly humorous battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

8. Vampires of the Velvet Lounge

Vampires of the Velvet Lounge

Release: On Demand
A coven of vampires is hunting on dating apps where they meet vampire hunters and schedule dates. The nights that unfold are action-packed modern horror madness.

9. We Bury the Dead

We Bury the Dead

Release: Hulu
After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava (Daisy Ridley) enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: the undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour.

10. Whistle

Whistle

Release: Shudder
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.

11. Bambi: The Reckoning

Bambi: The Reckoning

The hills have antlers in this twisted reimagining of a classic children’s tale from the makers of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare! ​ After a mother and son survive a horrific car crash, they soon find themselves stalked by Bambi, a grief-stricken, mutated deer on a blood-soaked quest for revenge after the death of his mother.​

12. Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

Truth is a luxury none of them can afford. Across five escalating tales of deception, the skeletons in the closet don’t just stay buried they start to bite back. In this world, uncovering a secret doesn’t set you free; it just drags you deeper into the dark.

13. Demon of Paradise

Demon of Paradise

The hunters become the prey when illegal dynamite fishing prematurely ends the hibernation of a mythological carnivorous lizard man in Demon of Paradise! The owner of a local resort (whose patrons have become the appetizers on this predator’s menu) and a herpetologist join forces with the sheriff to save the remaining tourists from succumbing to the feasting of the beast. ​

14. Dracula

Dracula

When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) witnesses the brutal murder of his wife (Zoe Bleu), he renounces God and damns heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, he is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death, no matter the cost. On the verge of reuniting, Dracula is hunted by a relentless priest (Christoph Waltz), sworn to end his immortal reign. Written and directed by Luc Besson.

15. Dr. Q

Dr. Q

During COVID-19, psychiatrist Jackie faces isolation, hallucinations, and loss, confronting a patient’s crisis to find strength and purpose.

16. Echoes of Dread

Echoes of Dread

When a digital creator unearths a cursed film buried for over a century, she unknowingly unleashes a nightmare that spreads through her audience. As her followers fall under its sinister influence, she must race to stop an ancient evil before it turns the internet into its hunting ground.

17. It Came From Outer Space 4K

It Came From Outer Space 4K

Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) raced to the Arizona desert site of the meteor strike that he witnessed… and was stunned to discover a crashed UFO. Unfortunately, a subsequent landslide buried the evidence, and everyone he tried to warn dismissed him as a crackpot. Will they listen when locals start being replaced by shape-shifting extraterrestrials? Fifties sci-fi classic adapted from the Ray Bradbury story co-stars Barbara Rush, Russell Johnson, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer. Not in 3D.

18. The Loneliest Boy in the World

The Loneliest Boy in the World

Oliver lives alone in his late parents’ suburban home and faces rejection at every turn. Tasked with making new friends or living in state custody, he decides his best bet is to build a perfect family and starts at the local cemetery, where he digs them up one at a time! When he awakens the next morning, he discovers his newly acquired friends have mysteriously come to life, launching them all into a series of misadventures as they try to keep their secret safe.

19. Loner

Loner

An aspiring vlogger documents his solo wilderness retreat in a remote forest cabin, chasing views and adventure. But when he encounters something ancient lurking beyond the trees and makes a choice he can’t undo, the journey spirals into terror. As isolation deepens and reality fractures, the camera keeps rolling, revealing a transformation far more disturbing than anything he set out to film.

20. Patricia Moore

Patricia Moore

Sixteen-year-old Patricia lives with her cannibalistic family on the run in the Australian outback, hiding from an ancient cult they once escaped. Forced to lure victims for her uncle to kill, she knows no other life until a broken freezer strands them in a quiet lakeside town. There she falls for a local teen and tastes normal life for the first time. Torn between love and loyalty, Patricia’s choice leads to a violent, tragic reckoning.

21. Safe Place

Safe Place

After a devastating pandemic shatters civilization, five young survivors flee into the wilderness in search of safety. Their refuge in an isolated villa offers hope, until the infected return as Shadows, hollow remnants of humanity. As paranoia spreads and trust erodes, the group must confront impossible choices. In a world without rules, survival demands a price, and not everyone will pay it the same way.

22. The Terror Within Double Feature

The Terror Within Double Feature

The Terror Within: In the aftermath of a chemically induced plague that wipes out most of the world, the only survivors are a small group of scientists trapped in a laboratory 500 feet below the ground in the Mojave Desert. But they are not alone…​ The Terror Within II: In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutants break inside humanity’s final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the Earth’s surface. ​

23. Worldbreaker

Worldbreaker

A father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe while he equips her for survival and the battles ahead. Directed by Brad Anderson and starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich.